Producers and wholesalers of leather in the province of Alicante, the country's most important footwear manufacturing centre, will have to negotiate a collective pay agreement for their workers in 2012. Mainstream trade union organisation UGT has given Spain's Association of Component Manufacturers for Footwear and Leathergoods (AEC) the authority to represent the members it has among the estimated 1,500 workers in the province who work in approximately 300 companies that make or distribute leather and other footwear components.
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